Deputy Principal/Student Wellbeing

Maths Family Engagement Morning

On Monday 18 July all Sacred Heart Kew parents are invited to our Maths Family Engagement Morning. This will take place from 8.45am - 10.45am.

In consultation with Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS) Eastern Region Mathematics School Support Team, we will be showcasing how both the school and home can partner together to engage our children further in the area of Mathematics. Gabrielle Richardson (Sacred Heart Kew Maths Leader) and Ross Kirwan (Mathematics Learning Consultant) have designed a fun and engaging presentation for parents to learn about the different strategies that are used within the classroom that families can also follow up with at home. This will be a formal presentation from 8.45am - 9.45am and take place in the MPR.

From 9.45am - 10.45am, parents will be invited into the classrooms, where the children will be the teachers, leading parents through some fun and engaging Maths activities. At this time, parents can visit multiple classrooms if they have more than one child.

Families will be ‘gifted’ a take home maths showbag, with some useful resources and instructions for the games.

Please complete the Operoo eform to indicate your attendance to this event.

Wellbeing Day

On Monday 20 June, the students celebrated being a 'Sacred Heart Kid'. We welcomed Sr. Brigid Arthur from the Brigidine Asylum Resource Centre in the morning, to explain how the items of the Sacred Heart Food Drive will assist those in need. The students then engaged in multi-aged activities such as: kindness rainbow heart paper weaving; creating mandala designs; emotions charades; designing gratitude cubes; and creating a 'Things to look forward to jar'. The day ended with a Colour Run with over $200 being raised for the Royal Children's Hospital. The activities aimed to promote positive thinking, improve physical and mental health, team buidling, laughter and social interaction.

Thank you to Mrs Drough (Learning Diversity Leader) for organising this exciting day which included a special pizza lunch.

Wellbeing activities and conversation starters for parents (Personal Strengths)

Below are some activities that you can use at home that will help build your child's ability to recognise and understand positive qualities in themselves and others. The activities are focused on developing your child's self-confidence and capacity to face and manage challenges.

Personal Strengths activities Prep-6
Prep	Goal: Recognise our strengths by talking about things we are good at.	Activity: With your child, take turns at drawing a portrait of each other. Around the portrait write all the things you think each other is good at.
Year 1/ 2	Goal: Describe how we use out strengths to be a good family member.	Activity: With your child, discuss what each of your character strengths are. Draw a picture of yourselves using one of these strengths at home.
Year 1/ 2	Goal: Describe how we use our strengths in daily life.	Activity: With your child, watch a TV show or read a stroy book together and identify how a character showed any of these strengths (honesty, fairness, patience). What would the opposite of these look like?
Year 3/4	Goal: Recognise our personal strengths	Activity: Personal strengths are our positive qualities. Ask your child: What are your personal strengths? What do you think are my personal strengths? Swap!
Year 3/4	Goal: Identify how you can use personal strengths in daily life.	Activity: Kindness is a personal strength. Being kind means you do thinkgs for others without expecting anything in return. Encourage your child to do something helpful for a family member. Ask them to share their acts of kindness with your famly.
Year 5/6	Goal: Demonstrate character strengths.	Activity: Encourage your child to do something to make life easier for someone else at home.
	Goal: Demonstrate character strengths.	Activity: With your child, plan to do something kind for a neighbour, friend or family member. HINT: You might like to: -Check to see if an elderly neighbour needs help wiht grocery shopping. -Call a family member you don't live with such as an uncle, aunt or grandparents to say hello -Write a letter or send an email to a friend and post it to them.